by Beth Karas | May 14, 2017 | Todd Kendhammer, News |
Todd Kendhammer claims that the death of his wife Barbara last fall was the result of a freak accident on the morning of Friday, September 16, 2016 in Hamilton, La Crosse County, Wisconsin. It was around 8:00 a.m., the time that Barbara was typically arriving at work...
by Beth Karas | May 6, 2017 | News |
Last Friday, May 5, a fraternity and 18 students at Penn State were charged with crimes stemming from the death of sophomore Timothy Piazza at a fraternity pledge night in February. The Beta Theta Pi fraternity along with eight students are charged with involuntary...
by Beth Karas | May 2, 2017 | Tex McIver, News |
A murder case in Atlanta caught my attention in large part because I always find interesting cases where the manner of death is an issue. This is one of them. Atlanta attorney Claud “Tex” McIver shot his wife Diane on September 25, 2016. He was just...
by Beth Karas | Apr 26, 2017 | News |
In 2009, I bought a copy of a report by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) called “Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward.” The report–actually it’s a 328-page hardbound book–was the result of a...
by Beth Karas | Apr 14, 2017 | News |
On day 6 of deliberations, the Boston, MA jury that began hearing evidence in Aaron Hernandez’s double murder trial six weeks ago, acquitted him of murder and all other charges except one: the unlawful possession of a gun. Clearly, jurors did not believe the...
